Historical research on African Mental Health and Well being places the continent at risk--War, Disease, Famine and Poverty affects the indigenous people of Africa in many ways. Primarily, I assert that the historical socio-cultural ills of War, Disease and Poverty in particular have affected the psyche of the African in many adverse manners. In essence, the social identity of the African has not been: 1) Properly placed and developed within the holistic approach to African Life 2) Placed within an original theoretical framework pertinent to African Psychosocial Life 3) Investigated with respect to how an African social identity implies that one has multiple pathways to optimal well being and positive mental health status, given one's current identity status and group context. I wish to offer a contemporary approach to understanding the importance of an African Identity Type on one's overall mental health functioning and well being. I wish to argue that Africans (Specifically, Native, indigenous BLACK South Africans) need to be placed in a context where they are understood as part of a holistic, circuitous identity framework that allows them to be interpreted as having/possessing multiple pathways to optimal mental health functioning. The inability to understand South Africans, and Africans in general in this multifaceted, dynamic manner allows for pejorative, negative interpretations of the mental health status and well being of many of the individuals which reside on the continent. This will be an original cultural think piece that will serve as the template for the further development of the Grant African Identity Theory.